Regina—a sassy and, somewhat trashy small town mess—gets wasted, crashes her truck, and awakes on the “other side.” Well, kinda. Instead of fully crossing into the afterlife, she’s stuck trudging through a purgatory poignantly reimagined through pop-culture’s current “It” ghoul: the Zombie. No one in Regina’s rural town readily accepts her malformed state, what with […]
Archives for February 2015
Grief of a First Lady. World premiere of The Widow Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre
From the first moment that Mary Bacon steps onstage, you know this will be a bravura performance. That the stage is the haunted and venerable Ford’s Theatre, and that she is playing Mary Todd Lincoln in the world premiere production of The Widow Lincoln, makes for an even more potent beginning.
Nice Work If You Can Get It’s quick stop in DC
The remarkably gifted George Gershwin was astoundingly prolific. He left behind an amazing musical legacy that is still wildly popular and familiar 75 years after his death at the shockingly young age of 38. (Many 38-year-olds these days are still living at home.) It is remarkable, too, that he continues to churn out new shows […]